About Adelphia petrella Zeller, 1846
Adelphia is a monotypic (single-species) snout moth genus in the subfamily Phycitinae. This genus was described by Carl Heinrich in 1956. Its only currently recognized species is Adelphia petrella, which was first described under the name Pempelia petrella by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1846. This species is distributed in North America, where its range extends from New Jersey to Florida, and west to Iowa and Texas. A second species, Adelphia ochripunctella, was formerly classified within this genus, but it is now placed in the separate genus Pseudadelphia.
